Category: digital humanities
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CFP: DIGITAL HUMANITIES AUSTRALASIA 2014: Expanding Horizons
Call for Papers, Posters and BoFs. DIGITAL HUMANITIES AUSTRALASIA 2014: Expanding Horizons The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) is pleased to announce its second conference, to be held at The University of Western Australia, 18-21 March, 2014. The aim of DHA 2014 is to advance digital methods, tools and projects within humanities research and…
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Arts Hack @ University of Melbourne
I attended this event recently at The University of Melbourne. Thanks to ITS Research for putting it on.
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How many digital humanists does it take to change a light bulb?
Q. How many Digital Humanists does it take to change a lightbulb?A. Two: The first to change the lightbulb using the available, existing technology. The second is to say, You’re only DH if you make the lightbulb yourself! Q. How many Digital Humanists does it take to change a lightbulb?A. Yay! Lets Crowdsource! Q. How…
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10 favourite Digital Humanities projects about ‘class, gender, and race’
I am not sure that these particular projects had the explicit intent to expound ‘class, gender, race’, at least not seen through a blustery politics-in-the-wild lens. But still, apart from their significant scholarly contributions, they do put to rest the accusation that computing in the humanities is at odds with those scholars who can only…
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Not elite enough?
Trying to change the world through DH is like trying to change the world through architecture. Or worse still, trying to change the world through accounting. I like the DH because of its scholarly politics and not because of general in-the-wild politics, which, of course, has its essential place but has swamped parts of the…
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Book Review of Matthew K. Golds (2012) Debates in the digital humanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Matthew K. Gold (ed.). (2012). Debates in the digital humanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816677955.516 pages. USD 34.95. Matthew K. Gold has brought together several leading figures in Debates in the Digital Humanities in a broad-ranging collection of articles that outline the contested, eclectic, and progressing landscape of computing in the humanities. At…